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Covers are primed, light coat of 2330 plas-tick adhesion promoter and 3 coats of 33430 primer surfacer with 2350 flex additive. I will let them set a few weeks before block sanding and re-priming. Axalta products

Cool, thanks, great stuff...I was gonna bite the bullet and grab a housing from one of the pre fab shops, like 300 to 400 bucks. Havent found anyone around here with the jig, but will keep looking. I will need to swap bearings ends from small to large and I know that usually costs me a couple hundred for narrow and bearing swap...so pre fab maybe just as economical.

Wow, very nice work on those. I need to pickup one of those older plastic welders. My Harbor Freight is not very good for this type of work. Do you have any tips for working with wavy covers? My 03 Marauder has the yellow urethane and the rear cover is wavy on the sides and the paint has spider web cracks. I tried to redo the front using some Metal Kote filler but now the paint is popping off the filler.

Wow, very nice work on those. I need to pickup one of those older plastic welders. My Harbor Freight is not very good for this type of work. Do you have any tips for working with wavy covers? My 03 Marauder has the yellow urethane and the rear cover is wavy on the sides and the paint has spider web cracks. I tried to redo the front using some Metal Kote filler but now the paint is popping off the filler.

Heating them up and pushing out and in where needed is about the only way. I use a couple of body dollies and spoons to "work" the plastic around when its warm, then hold it there until it cools down. I wouldn't attempt to do this unless you plan on repainting the cover, more than likely to get things hot enough to move you are going to burn the paint. I rarely fix bumper covers here at the shop, it has to have just very minor damage or it gets replaced. More often than not you end up with more labor in fixing and prepping than the cost of a new one. Your Marauder rear cover is about $1350 though, so it may be worth putting some time into.

By no means are my covers going to be what I would call straight, maybe it's possible to get them there, but to me would be an exercise in futility.

thanks on the plastic work, wondering about that myself. I used a good old Wagner heat gun to strip my Mustang...worked great...maybe not the best for a dedicated shop, but got the job done for a lot less...